Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-21

1t Is not all smooth and unrutfied water
in which we are to sail our banks in this
matter of inducing desirable immigration
to turn this way. As an amusing curios-
ity, we reprint the following from the
GAINESVILLE wis., Recorder and Times,
which is published under the heading,
"That California BOOM
Not content with their late experiences in
Manitoba, Dakota, the New South and other
places lots of people have got it into their heads
that California is the next land of promise.
Mistaken idea again. as usual Some of those
who have been to California this winter tell
woeful stories. Probably all the rest would if
they would own the facts. Aside from being
jostled about pretty lively over the mountains,
side-tracked, Showed under and generally left
to shit for themselves while on the journey it
appears that Southern California is over
crowded, and a most dead and alive place to go
to in many respects. A Rockford lady writes us
ant winter. She expected and was prepared to
pay good prices but was compelled to put up
with 7x9 ROOM cold as barn, with board 81
per day. She says the worst snow-stOrm that
she ever saw took place while she was there.
The inhabitants seem to be too shiftless to build
warm houses, or kindle fires, but prefer to hump
up and shiver around between life and death
during cold weather. As to roses and marigods,
dry, hot weather and dust. these are the con-
comitants of their glorious summer, which de-
luded strangers are made to believe lasts per-
petually. All the worse for them, if true. Peo-
pie go there to die, not to live-unless, fortu,
nately they can escape before the final summons.
A well-known Green county lady, just return
ing, tells similar story, with slight variations,
but in the same strain. And still the boom is
on, and the States continue to pour in their
streams of sick and tire out humanity, furnish
ing grand and steady-going picnic for the
natives of a lazy cline. The railroads, hotels
and eating hnncnS MING Oft
The deluded victims of misplaced confidence
foot the bills.
1t may be of benefit to us to read such
as the above to arouse us to realization of
the fact that the West is not so ready as
we have supposed to part with portion of
its population for our gain. We must not
assume that all are rose-colored pictures
that are drawn of California at the East.
There is plenty of misrepresentation !;
plenty of opposition, too. OF course when
any lady wrote to Wisconsin journal that
Southern California sis a dead and alive
place" she drew upon some temporary
irritation to support her statements. When
she complained of high prices for hotel
accommodations she may or may not have
had cause, but at least the fact that the
country was full of tourists should have
been taken into account by her. Doubt
less if GAINESVILLE hotels and boarding
houses should be called upon to entertain
beyond their capacity, prices would go up
and comforts decline; human nature is
pretty much the same the world over. We
do not, however, believe the correspondent
was at all warranted in her petulant ex-
pressions. They misrepresent the hos
pitable, enterprising and generous people
of the South. We of California
know it to be untrue that she encountered
fierce snow-storm. That she should have
written such a story to her home paper
discredits all she SAYS besides. To the
Eastern visitor, accustomed to cold eli
mates, thick walls, "banked-up houses ,,
and the thermometer down in the "below
zero figures" undoubtedly our houses APP
pear slight and i'll adapted to the temper
ature they assume must attach to win
ter" But the people of California know
that they are precisely what we need. A
chilly day or two, possible anywhere, may
have so unsettled the lady as to lead her to
the extravaganza in which she INDUCES.
So, too, with the "Green county LADY,
The whole quotation is too evidently I'M
derlaid with chagrin over the departure of
some of the solid people of the West for
California, and we will certainly be
brought to face more and more with this
spirit The West is not to be deprived of
some of the best elements of its society
without protest, feeble example of which
we have given.